But the love of adventure was in father’s blood.
BUFFALO BILLI began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.
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My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west.
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After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross.
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The Indians kept increasing in numbers until it was estimated that we were fighting from 800 to 1,000 of them.
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It was because of my great interest in the West, and my belief that its development would be assisted by the interest I could awaken in others, that I decided to bring the West to the East through the medium of the Wild West Show.
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We got more provisions for our whiskey than the same money, which we paid for the liquor, would have bought; so after all it proved a very profitable investment.
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As a good horse is not very apt to jump over a bank, if left to guide himself, I let mine pick his own way.
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With the help of a friend I got father into a wagon, when the crowd had gone. I held his head in my lap during the ride home. I believed he was mortally wounded. He had been stabbed down through the kidneys, leaving an ugly wound.
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The first presentation of my show was given in May, 1883, at Omaha, which I had then chosen as my home. From there we made our first summer tour, visiting practically every important city in the country.
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The greatest of all the Sioux in my time, or in any time for that matter, was that wonderful old fighting man, Sitting Bull, whose life will some day be written by a historian who can really give him his due.
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Major North has had for years complete power over these Indians and can do more with them than any man living.
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I could never resist the call of the trail.
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Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
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My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
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The Indians said the bones were those of a race of people three times the size of a man.
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It was because of my great interest in the West, and my belief that its development would be assisted by the interest I could awaken in others, that I decided to bring the West to the East through the medium of the Wild West Show.
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